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iHeartRadio Station In Charlotte Consolidating NASCAR Broadcasts

iHeartRadio and its broadcast partners today will announce that Charlotte-area WEND-FM "will carry all the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competitions provided by rival racing networks Performance Racing Network and Motor Racing Network." This means that Sprint Cup races "will have a common radio home in Charlotte beginning with Sunday's Daytona 500." Various stations in Charlotte "carried some of the races in recent years," but only Rock Hill-based WHRM-FM was a "prime carrier, and its signal didn’t carry deep into North Carolina" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 2/20).

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